Charles Howard WalkerF.A.I.A. (January 9, 1857 – April 12, 1936) was an architect, designer and educator in Boston, Massachusetts, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1] He was associated with the architecture department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[2] and was affiliated with Boston's Society of Arts and Crafts.[3][4]
Biography
Walker was born January 9, 1857, in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, to George S. Walker and Mary L. Damorell.[5] In 1875 at the age of 18, Walker worked at the architectural office of Sturgis and Brigham, where he had opportunities to study architecture in New York, Europe, and Asia Minor.[6]
In 1885, Walker partnered with Thomas Rogers Kimball and formed the firm Walker & Kimball. This partnership continued until 1899 when it ended after Walker and Kimball were architects in chief for the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Greater America Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska.[7] Walker practiced architecture solo until 1911 when he formed with his son, Harold D. Walker, the firm C. Howard Walker and Son. In 1925, architect Frederick S. Kingsbury joined the firm and was renamed to Walker and Walker and Kingsbury. Shortly after in 1930, the firm was renamed to Walker and Walker.[6]
Walker was a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was associated with their department of architecture for forty-nine years.[8] He also lectured at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Lowell Institute.[6]
^ a b c dBeattie, James A.; Huang, Tzu-Ching; Benedict, Mason (1938). "Biographical Notices". Proceedings of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. LIXXII. Boston: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. pp. 396–397.
^Brochure series of architectural illustration. Boston: Bates & Guild Co., June 1898
^ a b cBrief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947 (PDF). Transcribed by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. Society of Architectural Historians. pp. 133–134.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Omaha Public Library Archived July 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^Library of Congress
^Sylvester Baxter. Boston park guide: including the municipal and metropolitan systems of greater Boston. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898
Further reading
By Walker
Architecture of the Library. In: Handbook of the new Public library in Boston. Boston: Curtis & Co., 1895.
Theory of mouldings. 1926.
About Walker
American Federation of Arts. American art annual. MacMillan Co., 1905.
Who's who in New England. A.N. Marquis & Company, 1915.
William Emerson. Charles Howard Walker (1857–1936). Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 72, No. 10 (May, 1938), pp. 396–397.
External links
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WorldCat. Walker, Charles Howard 1857-1936
Google news archive. Articles about C. Howard Walker.
Flickr. Photo of nos. 493, 495, and 497 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston; "built in 1895, and designed by architects Arthur H. Vinal and Charles Howard Walker"
Flickr. Bancroft Memorial Library in Hopedale, Massachusetts
MIT Museum. Portrait by Emil Pollak-Ottendorf of 5 architects: William Felton Brown, Charles Howard Walker, Harry Wentworth Gardner, John Osborne Sumner, William Henry Lawrence.